Section 24 - Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Reducing Methane Emissions from Landfill Gas) Methodology Determination 2025 - Requirements for flaring only projects (small and regional landfill)

24Requirements for flaring only projects (small and regional landfill)

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24 Requirements for flaring only projects (small and regional landfill)

A flaring only project (small and regional landfill) must be a project to which the following apply:

the section 22 application or section 128 application in relation to the project includes a CEO statement certifying that, on the basis of modelling undertaken by the project proponent for the project within the period of 12 months immediately preceding the making of the section 22 application or section 128 application, the generation of electricity as part of the project is unlikely to provide a reasonable return on investment;
in the 3-year period immediately preceding the making of the section 22 application or section 128 application:
the average annual amount of waste received by the project landfill was less than 50,000 tonnes; and
the project landfill was not previously the project landfill for any other eligible offsets project;
consultation undertaken by the project proponent with the owner and operator of the project landfill endorses the statements in paragraphs (a) and (b).